Samaná English

Samaná English
Samaná English
Samaná Peninsula English
Native to	Dominican Republic
Region	Samaná Peninsula
Ethnicity	Samaná Americans
Native speakers	12,200 (1950)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo–Frisian Anglic English North American English American English Older Southern American English African-American Vernacular English Samaná English; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Samaná English (SE and SAX) is a variety of the English language spoken by descendants of Black immigrants from the United States who have lived in the Samaná Peninsula, now in the Dominican Republic. Members of the enclave are known as the Samaná Americans.

The language is a relative of African Nova Scotian English, or also as a derivative of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), with variations unique to the enclave's history in the area. In the 1950 Dominican Republic census, 0.57% of the population (about 12,200 speakers) said that their mother tongue was English.